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The 50th annual Grammy awards on February 10 marks the final crescendo of our MyGrammyMoment contest. All 15 musicians chosen by your votes have been in L.A. this week rehearsing their orchestral contributions to the Foo Fighters’ song “The Pretender,” but only one will be selected to step out from the crowd as a featured soloist. And did we mention Led Zeppelin bass player and multi-instrumentalist John Paul Jones will be conducting all this? This group of amazingly talented violinists, cellists and trumpet players from all over the U.S. has been having a whirlwind week in L.A., juggling rehearsals with the Foos and Jones with Grammy Foundation events (where they got to walk the red carpet and rub shoulders with Musiq Soulchild, Natasha Bedingfield and Jerry Lee Lewis). Friday’s rehearsal at the Staples Center gave them a chance to watch their fellow Grammy night stars tune up for the big show. (Wasn’t that Alicia Keyes who just passed by?) Peek in on the rehearsals, complete with jokes supplied by Dave Grohl and a Foo fan visit from Juliette Lewis: Tune in to the Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 10, to see all Top 15 YouTube instrumentalists in this once-in-a-lifetime performance; you can also vote right up until the performance for which talented ‘Tuber — Ann Marie Calhoun, Brian Fitzgerald or Tara Klein - should step out as a soloist. In addition, we’re featuring everyone’s audition video on the home page today so you can see what sparked this whole experience in the first place. Live from La-La Land, Michele K-Tel YouTube music

Experience Fashion Week Firsthand
This week marked the start of the fall fashion season with New York Fashion Week 2008, seven days of runway shows, parties, after-parties, parties after the after-parties, and all-around fabulousness. If your schedule doesn’t allow you to jet off to the Apple, darling, our Fashion Week 360 channel is the one place where you can experience New York Fashion Week from all angles. For starters, we’ve got our very own freewheeling fashionista William Sledd in New York giving you the play-by-play: In addition, Elle Magazine brings you into shows by top designers like Diane Von Furstenberg, Malandrino and Carolina Herrera; Ford Models takes you backstage where designers and models are furiously suiting up for the catwalk, and NylonTV takes in-depth looks at the hottest new talent like Erin Fetherston, Yigal Azrouel, and Rag & Bone. Here’s just a sampling: The FashionWeek360 channel is updated daily, so check back to get the latest from the Big Apple. And it doesn’t stop there: we’ll have Fashion Week video from London, Milan, and Paris through March. (Air) kisses, Sadia H. YouTube Howto & Style

New Face, No Significant Increase in Hair
Hi YouTubers, I’m very excited to introduce myself. I’m your new Comedy Manager, Mark Day. Some of you might know me as a bald guy ranting in front of a yellow wall, in what some believe to be “a pretend Scottish accent.” But given the countless number of users on the site, I’ll be a new name to many of you. Either way, I’ll be doing everything I can to bring you the full range of comedy available on YouTube today — from the best sketch groups and the latest movie parodies to up-and-coming stand-up comedians and the kind of videobloggers who love to make their subscribers laugh. I’ve been a YouTube user since March of ‘06, and I’ve been lucky enough to meet and even collaborate with many talented people since then. I know just how much work people put into creating original content, and I’m looking forward to helping our finest comedic talent find the spotlight to shine. Now that I’m part of the YouTube team, you won’t be seeing much of my big bald head any more (which is, perhaps, a blessing). But I do want to thank everyone who made it fun for me to get in front of a video camera in the first place. Now I hope I do my part to encourage more users to post their own rants, skits and amusing opinions. As for my yellow wall, it’s currently hoping to film its own sitcom pilot as soon as the writers’ strike is over. Cheers, Mark D. YouTube Comedy

Super Tuesday — Tune In!
Today is the biggest day in the U.S. presidential primary race so far, and you can follow all the action right here on YouTube. Check out our Super Tuesday platform to see videos from voters, candidates, and news organizations from around the country. We’re featuring some of the best ones on our home page all day today. Here’s a highlight reel: Come back to our Super Tuesday channel throughout the day as videos pour in from the 24 states holding primaries. Add your own video to the mix to have your voice heard alongside everyone else’s. If you’re looking for ideas on the kind of video to make, we’ve got some suggestions here. But most importantly — get out and vote! Yours, Steve G. YouTube News & Politics

Stuck in Chad, and YouTube is the Communication Line
On Saturday, when around 1500 rebel forces attacked Chad’s capitol city of N’Djamena, the American organization Stop Genocide Now got stuck in the middle of the fighting. Sequestered in a Hotel just a few hundred yards from the presidential palace, the group turned to YouTube to broadcast reports back home. The video are powerful. With gunfire in the background and personal commentary from the group’s leader, Gabriel Stauring, you get a real sense for the gravity of the situation as the Chadian government tries to beat back the rebel forces. Friends, famliy, and supporters tuned in via their YouTube channel and blog. Stop Genocide Now had been reporting from refugee camps on the Chad/Sudanese border, where hundreds of thousands of refugees remain displaced from the genocide taking place in neighboring Sudan. Gabriel and team had been filing YouTube dispatches from their trip every day, until the rebel invasion of the capitol left them stuck in their hotel in the city. It wasn’t the first time the group had used YouTube to bring attention to the situation in Darfur - the video question they shot from a refugee camp was used in the CNN/YouTube Democratic Debate back in July: Lucky for the group, they were evacuated from their hotel to a French Military complex on Sunday. But the fighting continues in Chad - French troops have been sent to beat back the rebel forces but progress has been limited. The conflict in Darfur and Chad is one of the most tragic on the planet, and it deserves our attention. Keep your eyes on YouTube channels like Stop Genocide Now to keep learning more about what’s happening there, and what we can do to help. Yours, Steve G. YouTube News & Politics

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